music album review thread!

[Fixiwee]

Come on, don't just review bands everyone knows off. Nobody is going to say: "WOW! Who are metellica if they have such an incredible sound?". That band is over 20 years old. Try something new which people haven't heard yet. Metallica and Iron Maiden are older then the internet. And a oneliner or simply a grade are not a review.

Okay, lemme try.
The Evpatoria Report - Maar

http://www.myspace.com/theevpatoriareport

Maar is the latest band by the swiss rock band The Evpatoria Report. Although it is always difficult to place modern bands with a certain creative sound to a genre this mostly goes with post rock. The album has only four tracks with each having a minimum of 10 mins. So be prepared to take you're time listening to this band. The first track kicks in like a unique rock song, I could not help myself to say within the first 5 minutes that this sound is interessting only to realize even 2 minutes later that I was bowing down to the great sound.
It becomes clear that this band has it's own sound with classical guitarres, drums and a violin. A modern synthesizer often drops in to embrace you with bizzare sounds that make you want to close your eyes and float away in your mind. A good example for this is the 3rd song Mithridate, which turns quite often in terms of the style, but half way through it reaches it's peack with a military report sample.
This is by no means an easy album. Although the influence by "Godspeed you! Black emperor" are sometimes clearly visible, the sound always remains unique and does not try to copy any other band. Hence it might be hard for listeners who have not been listening to prog/post rock to enjoy this band. One has to have an open mind and accept the music in it's own terms of creativity.
But those who are willing to try will expirience an interessting rock surprise. Rock may be dead. Post rock ain't.

[Hooahguy]

Come on, don't just review bands everyone knows off. Nobody is going to say: "WOW! Who are metellica if they have such an incredible sound?". That band is over 20 years old. Try something new which people haven't heard yet. Metallica and Iron Maiden are older then the internet. And a oneliner or simply a grade are not a review.

shuddup. im tired and drunk.

also, its an ALBUM review thread. not a band review thread. and if i wanted to review unknown band... thats Reverend Joe's area.

[Lord Winter]

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

Agalloch started out as a fairly standard folk/black metal band. However as their career went on they began to incorporate more musical ideas into longer and more progressive songs. Ashes Against the Grain sees Agalloch breaking further away from there black metal roots, by incorporating elements of post rock into a connected series of melodic soaring folk tinged passages, which are contrasted by slow atmospheric acoustic passages and restful emotive leads. The song stay are long by normal standards clocking in at around eight minutes a piece. However they never forced or boring and show excellent song writing and keep a sense of progression going on throughout there work. Vocals consists of folkish sounding clean vocals and fairly standard metal harsh vocals. However, the cleans are used the majority of the time. If you can get past the metal vocals Ashes against the Grain is an amazing album with many moments of magnificent beauty

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Samples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ih3JVrRPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlVzgAsVI4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1aJPEFtoNg